Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Yoko Ono's London Exhibition


Yoko Ono's exhibition at Hyde Park's Serpentine Gallery was a lovely collection of the artist's video-art, installations and interactive projects.
Before you entered the gallery you found a beautiful Wish Tree. Everybody was given a chance to write their wish down and hang it among other people's notes. It was a beautiful meditation, Lodon's message to God.

Inside there was a glass labyrinth, some of Yoko Ono's early video-art projects, poems and a wall with meditative and somewhat quirky texts written in pencil.

Yoko collects images of people's smiles. There were 2 electronic photo-booths where you could take a picture of yourself and submit it to the artist's collection. After a few minutes the images were projected on a large screen so that you could see yourself in a gallery and somehow become a piece of art. The photos are kept in Yoko Ono's archive and will be used in the future as a part of a larger installation.

The soothing surroundings of the Serpentine Gallery became a home for Yoko Ono's beautiful and minimalistic art concepts.
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Text: Maya Persson
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